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Attorney General Steve Marshall Announces Court of Criminal Appeals Upholds Capital Murder Conviction in Jefferson County

By VOCAL / June 28, 2023 / Comments Off on Attorney General Steve Marshall Announces Court of Criminal Appeals Upholds Capital Murder Conviction in Jefferson County

For Immediate Release:June 28, 2023 (MONTGOMERY)—Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction of Terrance Jermaine Holder, age 43 of Jefferson County, for capital murder. Holder was convicted in the Jefferson County Circuit Court on June 17, 2022. The evidence at trial showed that Holder got into a dispute…

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Attorney General Steve Marshall Announces Court of Criminal Appeals Upholds Capital Murder Conviction in Madison County

By VOCAL / June 28, 2023 / Comments Off on Attorney General Steve Marshall Announces Court of Criminal Appeals Upholds Capital Murder Conviction in Madison County

For Immediate Release:June 28, 2023 (MONTGOMERY)—Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction of Andrae Norvel, 30, of Huntsville, for capital murder. Norvel was convicted in the Madison County Circuit Court on December 10, 2021. The evidence at trial showed that on the evening of November 25, 2017, a…

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Attorney General Steve Marshall Announces Court of Criminal Appeals Upholds Murder Conviction in Baldwin County

By VOCAL / June 29, 2023 / Comments Off on Attorney General Steve Marshall Announces Court of Criminal Appeals Upholds Murder Conviction in Baldwin County

For Immediate Release:June 29, 2023 (MONTGOMERY)—Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction of Linda Doyle, 69, of Foley, Alabama, for murder. Doyle was convicted in the Baldwin County Circuit Court on February 17, 2022. The evidence at trial showed that on the night of July 30, 2019, Doyle…

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Florida ex-convict arrested in 2002 killings of pregnant east Alabama woman, her 6-year-old son

By VOCAL / June 30, 2023 / Comments Off on Florida ex-convict arrested in 2002 killings of pregnant east Alabama woman, her 6-year-old son

By  A man recently released from a Florida prison has been charged with the fatal 2002 stabbings of a pregnant east Alabama woman and her 6-year-old son, authorities said Friday. Lewis Landon Spivey, who served a 15-year-sentence in an unrelated case in Florida, is in the Cleburne County jail without bond following his arrest in the…

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Attorney General Marshall Honored as Crime Stopper of the Year

By VOCAL / July 27, 2023 / Comments Off on Attorney General Marshall Honored as Crime Stopper of the Year

(Birmingham) – Crime Stoppers of Metro Alabama honored Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall today as the Crime Stopper of the Year for his work as the chief law enforcement officer in the state, prosecuting Capital murderers, addressing fatal flaws in the criminal justice system and providing support to our men and women in blue. The luncheon highlighted the…

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Motion for New Trial Denied for Convicted Capital Murderer Coley McCraney

By VOCAL / August 7, 2023 / Comments Off on Motion for New Trial Denied for Convicted Capital Murderer Coley McCraney

(Ozark, Alabama) –Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall released a statement following the order issued by Judge William “Bill” Filmore denying Coley McCraney’s motion for new trial. In June, McCraney was sentenced to life without parole for the murders of J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett of Houston County. McCraney was convicted on four counts of capital…

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For 47 years, she was a pile of nameless ashes. How 2 Alabama investigators changed that

By VOCAL / August 25, 2023 / Comments Off on For 47 years, she was a pile of nameless ashes. How 2 Alabama investigators changed that

By & credit to: In May 1976, two boys were fishing in Sessions Creek in Grand Bay, not far from the Alabama-Mississippi state line, when they stumbled across a body. Deputies were called to the scene and identified the remains as an older female. She had been shot in the back of the head. Her hands…

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Governor Ivy Awards One Million Dollars to Alabama Crime Victims Compensation Commission

By VOCAL / August 31, 2023 / Comments Off on Governor Ivy Awards One Million Dollars to Alabama Crime Victims Compensation Commission

The Alabama Crime Victims Compensation Commission is excited to announce that Governor Kay Ivey has awarded ACVCC one million dollars from the Governor’s Office Emergency Fund. This money will go towards conquering the backlog of claims submitted by victims of violent crime. Executive Director Everette Johnson stated, “Governor Ivey has heard the cries for help…

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Alabama Expands Missing and Endangered Person Alert to Include Abducted Adults

By VOCAL / September 1, 2023 / Comments Off on Alabama Expands Missing and Endangered Person Alert to Include Abducted Adults

Governor Kay Ivey has signed into law an expanded version of Alabama’s Missing and Endangered Persons Alert, now to include an adult that has been abducted, effective Friday, Sept. 1. Previously, the criteria for a Missing and Endangered Person Alert stated that a person must be missing and living with a mental or physical disability,…

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ACLU Parole Watch Report

By VOCAL / September 23, 2023 / Comments Off on ACLU Parole Watch Report

Credit to: Alabama Political Reporter ACLU releases new Parole Watch Report (alreporter.com) View Report: New Report Exposes Parole Board Behavior and Outcomes | ACLU of Alabama (aclualabama.org) A new Parole Watch Report by the ACLU of Alabama identified multiple trends that could be contributing to Alabama’s ongoing low parole grant rate.  The Parole Watch Team…

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